Title: Problem manually installing 4.2.2
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Problem manually installing 4.2.2

 *  [RG2Cents](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rg2cents/)
 * (@rg2cents)
 * [10 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-manually-installing-422/)
 * Hi! I didn’t have many problems manually installing 3.9.1, but for some reason
   4.2.2 is giving me fits. I got a problem the first two attempts when I filled
   out the form for the wp-config.php. Instead of sending me to admin, it gave me
   a Parse error message (which I now wish I had copied to show). So I decided to
   make my own wp-config.php file and upload it to my files. Now when I go to the
   address of the blog I’m trying to set up, I get a different error, but still 
   can’t get to admin. The error message is: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected‘}’
   in /homepages/15/d531354473/htdocs/iso1/wp-includes/option.php on line 1081
 * I’m still fairly new to this so… HELP!

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 *  Moderator [t-p](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t-p/)
 * (@t-p)
 * [10 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-manually-installing-422/#post-6203400)
 * using [FTP ](http://codex.wordpress.org/FTP_Clients)or whatever file management
   application your host provides, try uploading a fresh copy of /wp-includes/option.
   php file from a fresh download of WP.
 *  Thread Starter [RG2Cents](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rg2cents/)
 * (@rg2cents)
 * [10 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-manually-installing-422/#post-6203412)
 * Ah! That makes sense to me! I’ll give it a try when I get a chance! Thanks!
 *  [woops](https://wordpress.org/support/users/woops/)
 * (@woops)
 * [10 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-manually-installing-422/#post-6203438)
 * I installed wordpress on hostgator by following the quickinstall. It was successful,
   which was also confirmed thru my mail.But i cannot access my website nor my dashboard
   thru cpanel.
 * when I try to access my site or dashboard it always says- “[Fiddler] DNS Lookup
   for “natureyourhelp.com” failed. No such host is known “
 * pls help. am newbie.
    I used wordpress 4.2.2
 *  Moderator [Jan Dembowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/)
 * (@jdembowski)
 * Forum Moderator and Brute Squad
 * [10 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-manually-installing-422/#post-6203440)
 * [@woops](https://wordpress.org/support/users/woops/) Per the [forum welcome](http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome#Where_To_Post)
   please post your own topic.
 * [https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation#postform](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation#postform)
 *  [moshinsky](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshinsky/)
 * (@moshinsky)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-manually-installing-422/#post-6203557)
 * I know nothing about programmimg etc but am helping with my club’s website which
   is wordpress. It wants to update to 4.2.2 but won’t do it automatically or manually.
   I get the following error message: Downloading update from [https://downloads.wordpress.org/release/wordpress-4.2.2-no-content.zip…](https://downloads.wordpress.org/release/wordpress-4.2.2-no-content.zip…)
 * Unpacking the update…
 * Could not create directory.
 * Installation Failed
 * Any ideas for a non technical person?
 *  Moderator [t-p](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t-p/)
 * (@t-p)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-manually-installing-422/#post-6203558)
 * For MANUAL Updating, download a fresh copy of the WordPress .zip file to your
   computer, unzip it, and use that to copy up all files and folders EXCEPT the 
   wp-config.php file and the /wp-content/ directory. You may need to delete the
   old copies of files & folder on your server before uploading the new ones.
 * Read the [Manual Update ](http://codex.wordpress.org/Updating_WordPress#Manual_Update)
   directions first

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 * 6 replies
 * 5 participants
 * Last reply from: [t-p](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t-p/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-manually-installing-422/#post-6203558)
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